I do love those aha moments. I had one earlier this week. The topic and eureka moment centred on geo-ops. Never heard of it? Read on. Bridging the Geo-Ops Divide Let’s start with some context. WebMapSolutions, I have discussed in other blog posts, changed our...

Most geospatial folks live in a world of technology. That means everything starts with the tech. As my friend Patrick puts it: Geospatial technologies have largely been seen as being solutions looking for problems Re-focusing has been a topic of much discussion. To...

After the 2016 factory collapse in Bangladesh there has been increasing scrutiny on brands. A study by the research organization Nielsen showed that ever more brands are being judged on their social and environmental responsibility. The global study found: More than...

When basic services go down, that can be a big problem particularly for those most vulnerable in society. A recent water main break in Woods Cross City, Utah forced sewage to back up into homes “The water main break happened just after 5 a.m. but the city...

Our mission as a company is to provide focused solutions which leverage geospatial technology to safeguard people and places. That mission gives us our focus, our reason to be. It is our ‘why’ statement. To be successful we recognise we need to push the...

When we began WebMapSolutions 10 years ago, we were a GIS technology company. The clients we worked with were far sighted, tech-savvy, early adopters. But that was then and this is now. In Confessions of a GIS Consulting Business, I mentioned the ‘why’ of...

The world of GIS is rapidly changing. New opportunities are emerging. Many old, inflexible business models are being challenged. As a company, we’ve been caught up in those changes. That has moved us into a period of self-reflection. Who are we? What are we?...

We’ve just been experimenting with 3D ArcGIS. In the map below you can interact with these ski resorts in Utah in 3D. All accessed through a browser. We are impressed with these new capabilities in ArcGIS, and can see how we are slowly moving away from 2D...

Buffering, geodatabase, location strategy, geocoding, Web GIS, location analytics. Nobody cares. Most have no idea what you are talking about. Drop it. What do those who might use GIS care about? Problem to solution that is what! Forget GIS. Focus on Solutions. So...

Those who read this blog regularly will have seen me discuss the difference between geospatial and GIS. The latter is a part of the former. Geospatial takes in all geotechnologies: mapping platforms, GIS, location intelligence platforms etc. GIS was once the only game...

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